ZACUALPAN.- The state government, through the Sports Institute and the physical education department, announced the start-up of technical sports training schools.
The plan is to spread sports such as athletics, weightlifting, boxing, wrestling, judo, archery and detect talent that goes to high performance.
Children from 10 to 12 years old participate and table tennis and badminton have started, said Madaí Pérez Carrillo, head of the IDET.
“We are starting in six schools in Teacalco Nativitas, Tepeyanco, Zacatleco, Apetatitlán and Zacualpan in the disciplines of badminton and tennis with a total of 225 children in tennis and 190 in badminton”
The director of physical education at USET Blanca Estela Cesar Bañuelos pointed out that physical educators will be trained by the respective federations and thus be able to detect sports talents.
“We are looking for a way for physical education teachers to support this project, if the physical education teacher has hours of sports physical activation, those hours will be used for the sports technical school”
At the presentation were the presidents of the table tennis and school sports federation, Miguel Cervantes Ledesma and Martín Sánchez, the technical secretary of the badminton federation Flavio Torres and the municipal president of Zacualpan Isidro Nophal.
